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Germany | Belgium 2016
Opening June 8, 2017
Directed by: Audrey Dana
Writing credits: Audrey Dana
Principal actors: Audrey Dana, Christian Clavier, Éric Elmosnino, Alice Belaidi, Antoine Gouy, Joséphine Drai
Be careful what you wish for! Jeanne (Audrey Dana) is a young mother of two girls, is introverted and overwhelmed. Merlin (Éric Elmosnino), with whom she works on an important architectural project, makes her feel timid. Her husband just left her for a younger woman and, on top of it, he gets custody for their children. No wonder, her anger explodes. Oh … why is it always so easy for men, why can't she be a man?! Come the next morning, she wakes up with a start, more frustrated and insecure than before. She has become part man, part woman. A male sexual organ has grown between her legs, which not only Marcelle (Alice Belaidi), her best friend, finds “awful”. What is to do? She storms into Dr. Pace's (Christian Clavier) practice. He reacts with shock and cannot help whilst Jeanne struggles with her new masculine emotions, like exaggerated sex-driven behavior. The only positive side effect is that Jeanne becomes a more self-assured woman. She suddenly finds it easy to communicate with the working men on site and discovers the harmless fun of urinating her name into the building sand. When she finds out that co-worker Marlin is not such a macho after all but tenderly cares for his four children on his own (his wife left him), love is in the air. How will she get out of her physical dilemma?
Audrey Dana is the director, main actress and also wrote the script together with her two colleagues Maud Ameline and Murielle Magellan. The romantic comedy is like a fairy tale where the witch grants a wish and can withdraw it at certain circumstances. The story plays freely with gender clichés and keeps jumping from slapstick to blunt, awkward sexual situations and back to funny – and even touchingly romantic – scenes. ()